I got on the mailing list for Columbia Theological Seminary (Flash required; bad bad bad!) of Decatur, Georgia more than a decade ago when I was looking for a theological school, and bless their hearts they’ve followed me for seven addresses since.
Now they’re publishing a rather interesting looking online magazine called @ This Point which, […]
OK, so you’re not giving up your black gown and you’re hot as blazes in your un-air-conditioned church? Wear the gown open. Wear it over street clothes: no stole, no collar, no bands, no hood. That way, if you begin to swoon you can shuck it unobtrusively. (I have a couple a time.) And demand […]
I am watching a show on CMT, called Twenty Greatest Country Comedy Shows while making some crunchy-granola vegetarian blue-state chick pea dish. Why? Because John Schneider is hosting it, that’s why: do you need me to spell it out? (But funny, because I was more of a Tom Wopat fan.) I realized I had been […]
PeaceBang has been promoting the alb as a solution for heat-stroke in the pulpit, but I can’t agree so I’m back to opining what ministers ought to wear.
I’m upgrading my home computer to the release candidate of Ubuntu Linux 6.06 (”Dapper Drake”), something a couple of you are interested in. A brief report if it goes well, and a bit of quiet from me if it doesn’t!
Sometimes Manfred Klein makes really good typefaces, and some are not so good. Some are great for German, and so-so for English. I use bunches — in part because his licensing is so loose that you can use them without worry — including the one that makes the nameplate above. Until recently, I’ve stuck to […]
No, PeaceBang, this isn’t my reply yet — still researching it — but I ran across the comment by dear Hank, where he said:
What our pal Unity and i are trying to get our hands on are Parson hats, you know those round flat hats that preachers always wear in cowboy movies and as soon […]
Ages ago, I said I would work on some ideas for remembering the dead when no physical remains could be found. This weekend seems a good time to pick that back up, and let’s begin with the catafalque.
Of all the vestment makers out there, I think Wippell’s is my favorite. (Not that I have any of their gear, but the Boy can dream.) They’ve had a website for ages: a backwards, nearly useless website. At last they’ve gotten parts of their catalog scanned and up as PDF files. (But as always, no […]
Summer is coming and heat with it. In the South, there’s a custom of turning out the lights to feel cooler. But it is more than a feeling: nearly all the power going into a standard incandescent light bulb exits as heat. That’s a double energy whammy in lost light and lost cool air. […]
